Event: Comedy weekend.
Location: Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol – 100-seat chapel
Role: event co-ordinator, publicity designer, community fundraiser.
Overview: As Development Manager connected with comedian and charity-supporter, Mark Olver to put on two fundraising gigs. Mark invited Dr Phil Hammond and Stuart Goldsmith to perform free-of charge.
Raised: £2,500 (£5,000 HLF-matchfunded) from ticket sales, a bucket collection and bar run by the ever-supportive Friends of Arnos Vale Cemetery.
Engaged: new audience: postcode analysis showed a large number were drawn from outside the Cemetery’s usual local area of support. Show of hands at Dr Phil's gig showed that around 5% of the audience had come primarily to support Arnos Vale's fundraising efforts, and that 25–30% had never before visited the site.
